Tobias Wolff
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Sobre El Autor
Tobias Wolff was born in Birmingham, Alabama on June 19, 1945. He served in the military as a paratrooper during the Vietnam War. He received a B.A. in 1972 and a M.A. in 1975 from the University of Oxford and a M.A. in 1978 from Stanford University. He held faculty positions at Stanford mostrar más University, Goddard College, Arizona State University, and Syracuse University. He was also a reporter for the Washington Post. His first collection of short stories, In the Garden of the North American Martyrs, won the St. Lawrence award for fiction in 1982. His other works include Back in the World, In Pharaoh's Army: Memories of a Lost War, The Night in Question, Old School, and Our Story Begins. The Barracks Thief won the PEN/Faulkner award for fiction in 1985. This Boy's Life: A Memoir won the Los Angeles Times Book prize in 1989 and was made into a 1993 film starring Robert De Niro and Leonardo DiCaprio. He also won three O. Henry Awards in 1980, 1981, and 1985 and the National Medal of Arts in 2015. He edited several anthologies of short stories including Matters of Life and Death: New American Stories, A Doctor's Visit: Short Stories by Anton Chekhov, and The Vintage Book of Contemporary American Short Stories. (Bowker Author Biography) mostrar menos
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Obras de Tobias Wolff
Meus Dias de Escritor 2 copias
Bible [short story] 2 copias
Kundenkommunikation in sozialen Medien Analyse und Steuerung der Kommunikationsprozesse (2017) 1 copia
Smokers 1 copia
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You've Got to Read This: Contemporary American Writers Introduce Stories that Held Them in Awe (1994) — Introducción — 380 copias
The Art of the Story: An International Anthology of Contemporary Short Stories (1999) — Contribuidor — 345 copias
American Fiction, Volume 1: The Best Unpublished Short Stories by Emerging Writers (1990) — Introducción, algunas ediciones — 16 copias
Antaeus No. 64/65, Spring/Autumn 1990 - Twentieth Anniversary Issue (1990) — Contribuidor — 12 copias
Antaeus No. 37, Spring 1980 - On the Poetry of Stanley Kunitz — Contribuidor — 2 copias
TriQuarterly 48: Western Stories — Contribuidor — 2 copias
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Conocimiento común
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- Wolff, Tobias Jonathan Ansell
- Fecha de nacimiento
- 1945-06-19
- Género
- male
- Nacionalidad
- USA
- Lugar de nacimiento
- Birmingham, Alabama, USA
- Lugares de residencia
- Seattle, Washington, USA
Palo Alto, California, USA - Educación
- Stanford University (MA ∙ English)
Hertford College, Oxford - Ocupaciones
- teacher
writer - Relaciones
- Wolff, Geoffrey (brother)
- Premios y honores
- PEN/Malamud Award (2006)
American Academy of Arts and Letters Academy Award ( [2001])
Whiting Writers' Award (1989)
PEN/Faulkner Award (1985)
National Medal of Arts (2014)
American Academy of Arts and Letters (2014)
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